ID 1064373
Lot 39 | RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Estimate value
$ 14 000 000 – 18 000 000
L’île au trésor
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 ¾ x 31 5⁄8 in. (60.3 x 80.4 cm.)
Painted in 1945
Provenance
Edmond Salembier, Belgium (acquired from the artist, 1946).
J. Toledo, São Paolo (acquired from the above, by 1975); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1981, lot 70.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Sylvester, René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, New York, 1993, vol. II, p. 356, no. 585 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie des Editions de Boétie, Surréalisme, December 1945-January 1946, no. 83.
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, René Magritte, November 1996-March 1997, no. 52.
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: The Key to Dreams, April-November 2005, pp. 120 and 200, no. 54 (illustrated in color, p. 120).
| Artist: | René Magritte (1898 - 1967) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | René Magritte (1898 - 1967) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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